Obama on Infrastructure: Wrong Again on Government “Investments”
In yet another summer speech on the economy yesterday, President Obama trotted out familiar tax-and-spend ideas, this time pairing his latest call for a tax… Read More
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Thank You, George Mitchell, for Fracking
George P. Mitchell passed away on Friday, July 26, leaving behind a legacy as the man who unlocked America’s vast oil and natural gas shale… Read More
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Keystone XL Jobs vs. Subsidized Green Jobs
President Obama criticized the job estimate numbers from the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in an interview with The New York Times over the… Read More
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Georgia Leader Beats Drum for Nuclear Energy
Georgia is riding a wave of new nuclear energy that, five years ago, many thought would be more crowded by now. Georgia Public Services Commissioner Tim… Read More
Green Jobs: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. President
In his speech at Knox College, President Obama laid out his plan for the Detroitification of America: higher taxes, higher spending, increased minimum wages, more… Read More
Energy “Race to the Top” Is a Race to the Trough
Advocacy groups are pushing to include the State Energy Race to the Top Initiative Act of 2013 legislation as an amendment to the Shaheen–Portman… Read More
Keystone Pipeline: Shaheen–Portman Bill the Wrong Place for a Keystone Amendment
The Heritage Foundation has already made the case that the Shaheen–Portman energy efficiency bill promises only more federal intervention and corporate welfare. Adding an amendment… Read More
Climate Change: What’s Happening?
President Obama reiterated his Administration’s commitment to addressing climate change in his Galesburg speech today, calling carbon dioxide “dangerous carbon pollution.” But just how dangerous… Read More
Great Green Fleet = Big Red Ink
It seems that Washington has a mandate, subsidy, or loan program for every bad idea. Today’s example is military biofuels. Just this spring, the Defense… Read More
Coal Ash Bill Empowers States
The House will soon consider Representative David McKinley’s (R–WV) Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act (H.R. 2218), which would block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)… Read More
Australia’s Carbon Policy: Just Do Something
At this time last year, the Australian government began collecting the world’s most expensive carbon tax. A year later, it seems unanimous among Australia’s two… Read More
Carbon Tax: Van Hollen’s Latest Version
Representative Chris Van Hollen (D–MD) is expected to soon introduce a new rendition of his cap-and-dividend carbon tax. Like earlier versions, Van Hollen’s bill would… Read More
Delaying Natural Gas Exports Delays Jobs
A new study from the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) is calling for the Department of Energy (DOE) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)… Read More
Energy Budget Cuts Are Attack on Subsidies, Not Science
House Members who are proposing cuts to the Department of Energy (DOE) budget are facing bogus criticism that the cuts are an attack on science…. Read More
Eliminate Advanced Manufacturing and Alternative Fuel Programs
There are sound market ideas that address issues of high energy prices. Throwing money at corporations is not one of them. The House of Representatives… Read More
Climate Change: White House Confuses Myths with Realities
Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the President for energy and climate change, took to the White House blog to defend the Administration’s climate-change plan in… Read More
Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Around the World
If it ain’t broke, the government will break it for you. That seems to be the lesson to draw from other nations that have implemented… Read More
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The President’s Pro-Nuclear Rhetoric vs. His Anti-Nuclear Policies
President Obama released his Climate Action Plan this week, which laid out his vision for reducing climate change. Regardless of what one thinks about climate… Read More
A Win for Coal Exports, American Jobs
The Obama Administration has imposed a laundry list of new regulations on the coal industry, making it increasingly difficult to mine coal and to build… Read More
11 Problems with President Obama’s Climate Change Plan
President Obama’s climate plan would have a chilling effect on the economy, not the environment. Here are 11 problems with the plan he outlined this… Read More
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Obama’s “Case for Action” on Climate Change Doesn’t Cut It
Yesterday, President Obama announced his climate action plan to drastically cut carbon dioxide emissions and mandate greater energy efficiency. This four-paragraph “case for action” on… Read More
Things That Will Cost More Under Obama’s Climate Change Plan
President Obama doesn’t “have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society.” And he probably considers you a member if you disagree with him on… Read More
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Obama Climate Change Plan: War on Coal Would Hike Natural Gas Prices 42 Percent
Remember the shale gas revolution that would bring stably low natural gas prices and fuel a manufacturing renaissance in the United States? Well, the Obama… Read More
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Obama’s “War on Coal” Hits American Families Hard
Regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Interior, and the Department of Labor have been labeled President Barack Obama’s “war on coal.”… Read More
Previewing President Obama’s Climate Change Speech
When Congress rejected a cap-and-trade proposal to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, a frustrated President said that cap and trade was only… Read More
Cloakroom: Going for Broke on Amnesty
Senate Cloakroom: June 24–28 Analysis: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is looking to make good on his promise to pass an amnesty bill through… Read More
Climate Change: The Cost of “Bold Action”
This week, President Obama stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and declared that “the effort to slow climate change requires bold action.”… Read More
Renewable Fuels: Raze the Maize Mandate
Senators John Barrasso (R–WY), Mark Pryor (D–AR), and Pat Toomey (R–PA) introduced a bill today to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Efforts in the… Read More
Environmentalists Sue, Settle, and Apologize Later
Environmental groups are the biggest abusers of a legal tactic known as “sue and settle,” according to a recent report from the U.S. Chamber of… Read More
Natural Gas Exports: Remove Government Barriers
A June 18 House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing will focus on the future of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Currently, the U.S. can freely… Read More
